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38T Ml THE UNION TIMES H VOL. LXV. NO. 25. UNION, S. C., FlttDAY, JUXJS 18, 1!?15. $1.00 A YKAK i s^==== UNION BOY WINS GREENVILLE BRIDI Miss Lovegnia Miller and Wm C. Gilmore Were Married in Greenville June 9?At Home to Their Friends at Santuc. V ______ Miss Lovegnia Miller and Mr. Win C. Gilmore were united in marriagt at the home of the bride's parents Mr. and Mrs. .John Miller, of Green vine on Wednesday, June ytn. The bride came in upon the arm o her father, and was by him give! away. The groom was accompaniec by Mr. J. D. Ashmore, of Greenville his hest man. The maid of honoi was the bride's sister, Miss Blanch* Miller. The bride wore a sand coat suit with hat and gloves and shoes t< match. She carried an armful o: sweet peas and lilies of the valley The bridesmaid wore white voile wit! pink accessories, and carried an arm ful of pink sweet peas. The rooms and hall were decoratec v with beautiful pot plants and cut flowers. Rev. Mr. Cobb, the bride's pastor spoke the words uniting: these happj young: hearts in the bonds of wedlock Only the families of the contract ing parties and a few intimate friends witnessed the ceremony. Mr. and Mrs. Gilmore left for Santuc immediately after the marriage and are at home to their many friend: These voung people are very popu lar and are receiving the hearty con gratulations of their many friends. BASEBALL AT E. K. MILLS The Excelsior Knitting Mills an* Jonesville teams crossed bats at Excelsior park Saturday and in a fasl and snappy game the E. K. Mil team defeated jonesville 5 to 0. Spencer was in the box for .Tones ville and pitched pood ball, but hi* support pave way in the second in ninp and the Knitters scored 4 runs Kirby, for the Knitters, was in fin? form and Jonesville could do nothing with him. The Knitters have a fast team and are playinp pood ball. Batteries for Jonesville: Spencet and Gait, for E. K. Mill: Kirby and Lamb. REVIVAL MEETING w?k: length, which corte do a close 1as1 Saturday nipht. Rev. D. C. William? assisted the pastor, Rev. J. D. Croft in the meetinp. There were severa additions to the church by letter. A STATEMENT The following sipned statement ha? been piven The Times by Mr. II Goldstein: Please allow me space in your paper to correct an error and in facl an absolute falsehood that is bei'np told on me. It is rumored that 1 took the remains of Abraham Guisinger to Columbia for interment in thi Jewish cemetery, which is correct. On my arrival in Columbia I was t< t ,1L'.. ?V.!. i o tui\? un null) IU Hit' .ifWIhll oynagogue where the Rabbi was to holt services, and upon being asked by the Rabbi as to what Mr. Guisinger was dressed in I told him a black suit of clothes. It is customary for Jews to be dressed in white linen suits therefore I had to carry out the instructions of the Rabbi. The report in circulation in Unior is that I bought a cheap coffin foi ?>lr. Guisinger and put his remains ir that and sold the handsome casket which cost $250 for a good amount and pocketed the difference. This is all a falsehood and the following affidavit will bear me out in this state ment: (Signed) II. Goldstein. Columbia, June 11, 1915. Mr. II. Goldstein, Union, S. C. Oi ? i /ear oir;? 'Phis is to certify that I met th< remains of Mr. Abe fluisinjror, or June the 2nd, and brought the re mains to my place of business an< the body was taken out of the casket and suit was taken off and the bod} was washed and dressed in linen, af tor which the body of Mr. Guisi'mrci was placed back in the same casket and metal lining and was buried ir the same casket that the remains ar rived in Columbia in, I have the suit of clothes that was taken off and \v?I hold the same for thirty days at youi disposal. J. W. McCormick. State of South Carolina, County of Richland. Sworn to before me this 11th ?h?\ of Juno, 1915. W. R. Bierley, Notary Public S. C COW DIE!) PECULIAR DEATH Mr. Solomon Gregory lost a fine cow this week. He was at a loss te know what had caused the cow? death, and supposed that she ha< been poisoned. His son, Mr. J. T quarters of an inch long. This indi nosis, cut into the cows stomach ant found twenty-four garden wire sta nles and five small nails about three suarters of an inch long. This indigestible food had been too much foi the cow. THREE E SON-IN-LAW OF ABRAHAM GUISINGEK HERE I Mr. Joseph Berg, of Savannah, Ga. was in Union this week, and was looking into the affairs of the late Abraham Guisinger, who was his father-in-law. Mr. Berg, who is traveling salesman for the E. O. Weill Co., a wholesale shoe house of Savannah, says that Mr. Guisinger leaves a wife and ' five children; one daughter, Mrs. e Berg, of Savannah; one son and one '? daughter in New York, one son in Canada and one son in Worcester, Mass., where the mother, Mrs. Guis' inger lives. 1 Mr. Berg said the children had not ' seen their father in some 15 years. r COSTUME PARTY 3 The Bronte Club entertained their friends Tuesday afternoon at a cos* tuine party at the home of Mrs. W. * E. Thomson. The rooms were thrown en suite " and handsomely decorated with sweet 1 peas and nasturtims. The members of the club stood in the receiving line. J Delightful music was furnished by Misses Loisa Duncan, I.utie Jordan, Fannie Duncan and Mrs. J. Frost Walker. 1 Ices were served. - LETTER FROM ONE OF 5 UNION'S SOI.nilT.P - Editor of The Union Times: , Dear Sir:?Doubtless you will be ? surprised to hear from me, but I wiM endeavor to give a short description - of the Hawaiian Islands or Island, as I haven't had time to visit any of the other Islands yet, but am going to visit them sometime in the near future. I am now in the service of Uncle Sam at Schofield Barracks, stationed i twenty-two miles northwest of the ' city of Honolulu. We have one of the prettiest reservations of any post in the service. The Hawaiian Islands 5 are claimed by numbers of traveling " people to be the garden spot of the * world. It is a land of frui't and ! flowers and is possessed of the most ' beautiful scenery. The Wyani mounL tain range that extends through the Islands from which we claim our " beautiful scenery, contains canyons 1 thousands of feet deep. Many peaks and cliffs which are thousands of feet high, and everywhere you look , are cc^vered with floors and many s aid fruit.' 1 ' vVWfe Islands have very little game, ; excepting a few mountain goat?, ' wild hogs and pheasants. There has f been a reward of a thousand dollars to the person finding a snake on the Islands. There is not a poisonous insect of any kind on the Island, so you see the Hawaiian differ in that ' respect from her own United States. The laws here are about the same as in our States. There is only three degrees difference in winter and sum" mer here. There is always a pleasant | breeze at night which makes the climate delightful. The population of Honolulu is between seventy-five and a hundred thousand inhabitants; one of the lar} gest hotels in the city of Honolulu, j It is also one of the prettiest laid-out cities of its size on the globe. It has all kinds of sports and amusements ' for both young and old. I wish very much that some of the people from dear old South Carolina, and especi' ally Union, and Union county could visit the Islands and see for themselves what I am trying to tell them. ' I love the States, but I, think Honolulu is the place of places for me. I k still have several months here and ' then am going to transfer to China for a couple of years before returning home. When I can have time to visit the other Islands will try and write you something about them in a long piece for your highly esteemed paper. WilCclose and go for a moonlight strool up the mountain trail and think of the folks at home. To any of my friends wishing to write me, my address is Honolulu, H. I., Schofield Barracks, Co. L., First Infantry. Will be glad to hear from anyone I wishing to write. If this does not L make the acquaintance of your waste basket will write again sometime. Respectfully, Yancey W. Bobo. BRAIN LEAKS 1 And some people are too intellectt ual to be intelligent. I Dyspepsia is the mother of many a disagreeable disposition. It sometimes happens that the victory is not worth the price. Even a color blind man can tell a greenback when he sees it. r An excellent way to flatter a woman is to keep still and listen. A wonder lasts nine days?but a woman m lunosay noes on rorever. ' There's more power in a woman's tears than there is a man's argu> ment. i Most old bachelors are hard to please; they don't even think a girl baby is fit to kiss until she is sweet sixteen. A fat man would rather get fatter than go hungry, but it is different with a fat woman. You can climb pretty high in the world, but you never get so high that you are above suspicion. HE IN WI1 Brave Sheriff A. Death?Pris Court Alleged Leader of i Effect of Officers' Boulware and May Recove] ments Retui to be Ki Monday (By J. Irhy Koon) Winnsboro, June 14.?Throe people wore shot to death, one was probably fatally wounded and half dozen others were more or less painfully hurt here this morning in a battle precipitated by the bringing of Jules Smith, a negro to Winnsboro for trial for alleged criminal' assault upon a white woman of Fairfield county. The dead are: A. D. Hood, sheriff of Fairfield county; Jules Smith, the prisoner, and Clyde Isenhower, relative of the alleged victim. J. R. Boulware, a deputy sheriff of Fairfield county, is probably fatally shot. Soon after the tragedy the grand niVir mnf o *-**4 ?K\fuvMA/l ? J V. . J IIIUV OIIU ICVU1IIUU II UC UIII?>, charging murder against Clyde Isenhower, who at that time was lingering on the point of death; Ernest Isenhower, his brother; Jesse Morrison, a brother-in-law, and James Rawls, the indictments charging the murder of Jules Smith. The inquest into the negro's death was adjourned until Friday. The inquest into the sheriff's death will be held tomorrow. Both sheriff Hood and Isenhower were literally shot to pieces. Each had five or six bullets in his body. Both were shot several times in the abdomen as well as in the arms and hands. Deputy Boulware was struck but once, the bullet penetrating th? abdominal cavity and caused what??f regarded as an excejsd|?,~y;,a,tanper^' wound. Smith, too, was' sfruck but1 once, the bullet taking effect just to the left of the navel. Many Slight Wounds Earle Stephenson, another deputy, was shot twice through the left arm, near the elbow. One of the bullets severed the artery in the arm, and young Stephenson suffered terribly from the loss of blood before the tourniquet was applied to staunch the flow. Stevenson and Isenhower were taken to Chester late this afternoon by S. W. Pryor, M. I>., for surgical attention in the Pryor hospital. Isenhower died at 10:30 o'clock tonight. A special train came here from Columbia immediately after the shooting and sheriff Hood and Deputy Boulware were rushed to Columbia for operations the former dying early tonight. In the fusillade/ many shots went wild, striking a bystander here and there, or burying themselves in the walls of the building. On the stairway up which Sheriff Hood led his prisoner, the wall is splothched with blood and the plastering is bullet drilled. Policeman Haynes, with Sheriff Hood was leading the negro up the stairway, hesitated just a moment when the firing began, and three or four bullets were plugged in the wall on either side of his head. B. R. Beckham, a special deputy, was shot through the calf of the right leg. R. L. Kelly, a magistrate's constable was hit in the thumb and arm. William Morrison, a brother-in-law of Clyde Isenhower, has a bullet beneath the scalp. Two bullets punctured the left leg of J. W. Richardson's trousers below the knee. One of these left a small mark on the opposite ankle. Alec Broome, another deputy, was mruin un me anaie ny a nuiiei going otT at a tangent. I). F. Smith, who was standing in the court yard, was struck in the side by a bullet, which had spent its force against one of the large columns of the portico. W. L. Holly, judge of probate, dV>o had a narrow escape. Mr. Holly was leaning against the door facing of the lower front entrance to the court house. When Clyde Isenhower had emptied his pistol he ran into the building, with bullets flying in his trail. One of these bit a particle from the brick coping at Mr. Holly's side, and, barely brushing his stomach, buried itself in the oposite wall. There were not more than four or five in the attacking party. Since Smith's arrest two or throe months ago the prisoner had been held at the State penitentiary from which he was taken early this morning and brought to Winnsboro by Sheriff Hood and eight deputies. As a matter of precaution 10 or 12 others had hcen sworn in to assist in the delivery of the prisoner to the court. When the two automobiles arrived from Columbia the machines were switched into VNSBORC D. Hood Shot to oner Slain at Hoyse. \ssailants Dies From Return Fire?J. R. Earl Stevenson r?Four Indictned?Inquest >sumed on , July 12. the jail yard, and the prisoner \vus led toward the court house. Nothing .?^tucu umii Lne omciais began to ascend the steps leading to the court room. Then Clyde Isenhower, relative of the alleged victim, opened fire So close was the assailant that the ballisters are powder stained. The weapons used in the fire between Sheriff Hood and Isenhower practically locked each other in the exchange of shots. It is thought that Isenhower killed the negro with the first shot fired. Grand Jury Acts Indictments for murder were returned late this afternoon against four members of the band attacking the officials and the prisoner. Those accused were: Clyde Isenhower, Ernest Isenhower, a brother; Jesse Morrison, a brother-in-law, and James Rawls. Ernest Isenhower has beep, arrested and is held in jail. Court had not yet convened when the tragedy occurred. Immediately upon the opening this afternoon at 3 o'clock Judge John S. Wilson charged thflt grand jury to make a thorough investigation, instructing that "efforts should be made to bring to justice every man who has taken the law into his own hands." The jury went to its rooms immediately, and et 7 o'clock returned the indictments. Despite his weakened condition . frr a a half dozen wounds, Sheriff .U^Vled the negro into the court eW'Uhe 1tflPPPed be'Thrt-l.J dock, uyiiig cnere a. xew m\nikfes'later. The officer then staggered on within the bar, and was eased to the floor by one of the court officials. "Well, they got me. I'm shot all to pieces," were his only words. Like Sheriff Hood, Isenhower was almost shot to pieces. In addition to the shots from the front three deputies flnnkpH him frnm ??"tU -:jj of the building. None of the crowd intervened and bullets from the officers' weapons drilled him clean, several of them taking effect in the right shoulder and in the right side. The cement surface about the courtyard, the stairs and the court room were blood splotched. Unbroken streaks of blood stains were woven wherever the wounded men walked and puddles formed wherever they fell. A Fine Officer Sheriff Hood was regarded as one of the best officials in the State. Being thrown upon his own resources early in life, he became a guard on the county chaingang. Later he was elected county supervisor. He was serving his 11th year as sheriff of Fairfield county. He was 4.'J or 44 years old. He was married but had no children. Immediately after the sheriff died in Columbia tonight Coroner Scott of Richland county notified Coroner T. F. Smith of Fairfield. The body was turned over to relatives and will be I u 1? ^ uiuu^iii. iicrc eany lomorrow, wnen an inquest will be held. Coroner Smith empaneled a jury today to pass upon the killing of the nepro. In the meantime, the p:rand jury investigation had bejrun and after the jury had examined the body the members were dismissed to meet Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock for further investigation. Wounded Deputy Tells of Fray?Saw Clyde Isenhower Shoot Sheriff Hood One of the principals in the Winnsboro riot, B. R. Beckham, soecial deputy sheriff, who was wounded in tin leg, described the incident as follows, when seen yesterday afternoon at the Columbia hospital: "I am a citizen of Winnsboro and was deputized by Sheriff Hood to as sist nim in protecting tne negro, Jules Smith, in case an attomp' should he made to take the prisoner from his custody. I was one of the party which came to Columbia this morning to get the negro from the penitentiary. We did not anticipate serious trouble, but the sheriff, to be on the safe side, deputized 12 more men when wo reached Winnsboro. There was not an unusually large crowd in town. "Our automobiles were stopped at the curb across the street from the court house. I was in advance, other deputies flanking and following the sheriff, who had hold of the prisoner. We had reached the court > BATTLE 1= house door and I had just started u] I the steps when the crowd began b surge about. "I heard Sheriff Hood order some body to keep his hands away from hi: pistol. It was then that the troubli began. Somebody drew a revolver Clyde Isenhower, who seemed to hi leading the mob, was firing at tin sheriff when I looked back. The sher iff's coat waved each time he was hit Someone shot me here in the righ leg. The bullet went through tin fleshy part of the calf and I thi'nl grazed the hone. "The negro started to run up th? steps and I grabbed at him, bu missed. Then I drew my pistol foi protection. The bullets were flyins thick and fast. One of the other dep uties pulled me around to the sid< of the steps, into a better defensive position. I saw Isenhower fire a! least one of theshots that hit Sherifl Hood in the stomach. Isenhower him I self was snot all to pieces. "Somebody whom I do not know stuck his pistol into my face at th. height of the affair and was about to fire, when I asked him, 'Why do you want to kill me?' He lowered his pistol and mixed with the crowd. 1 have no idea how many men were in the attacking party. We wer - pretty busy and hadn't time to notice details. It was a fearful experience, hut I tried in every way to do my duty." The story of how Sheriff Hood, after having received four wounds, carried the negro, Jules Smith, nearly to the prisoner's dock in the Fairfield county court house at Winnsboro was brought to Columbia yesterday by J. M. Stone, a special deputy, who was among the score of officers engaged in the fight. The negro, Mr. Stone said, died shortly after being dropped by the sheriff. Mr. Stone suffered a slight powder burn about the Cace. "The mob shot at Demitv Rnnlwaru even after Sheriff Hood had carried the negro into the court room," said Mr. Stone. Mr. Stone said that he was in front of the prisoner, on the long steps leading to the court room when Clyde Isenhower pushed a pistol through the banister and fired three times at Sheriff Hood. "After three shots had been fired by Isenhower," said Mr. Stone, "Sheriff Hood pulled his pistol and began firing. I think that the sheriff hit Isenhower every time he fired:' 'T^je sheiM'ff h*l*told all of. ttye derrattea not to fire until it was necessary.** " Mr.^Stone said that all the of the attacking party stood behind posts or the steps. He has no idea how many shots were fired.?The State. Winnsboro, June 15.?With a bullet battered court house and blood 1 splashed yard as mute evidence of the death struggle of the previous day, the officers of Fairfield today set about their task of fixing the responsibilty for the death of Sheriff Adam H. Hood and Jules Smith, his prisoner, receiving fatal wounds in a battle on the steps of the court house early Monday morning. A coroner's jury for over four hours this afternoon heard the testimony of 20 witnesses in the inquest over the body of the late sheriff. After hearing most of the deputies, constables, and special officers describe the battic in which their ngi'tininnfn/l +/-. gether with other witnesses, Coroner Smith adjourned the inquest until the second Monday in July at 10 o'clock. The hearing will he resumed, according to the coroner's edict, July 12. This is to secure the testimony of wounded deputies now in hospitals. W. C. T. U. LECTURER TO BE HERE M iss Cleo Attoway, state organizer for the Woman's Christian Temperance Union will speak at the First Baptist church Friday, today at S:J() o'clock. There will be several songs by the children also. In the afternoon at 5 o'clock. Miss Attoway will speak to the ladies on W. C. T. U. work. This later meeting will be held in the ladies parlor of the First Baptist church. The public is invited to attend the evening service. ENGAGEM ENT ANNOUNCED Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. McDow announce the engagement of their daughter, Etta May, to Spencer Rice Perrin, the marriage to be celebrated in the early fall. Miss McDow is a handsome, vivacious young woman and possesses a I'liai in ui iiMiuiur uiiii easily wins and holds her numerous friends. Mr. Perrin is an energetic and wide-a-wake young business man, and holds a prominent position with the Union-Buffalo Mills Co. here. These young people are receiving many congratulations. This announcement has been received with more than usual interest, and the community is a unit in wishing them a life of joy and happiness. The man who makes the best of everything should have no trouble in disposing of his poods. This is the season when the old hen peeps through a knot-hole in the back fence and smiles as she observes the man next door making a garden. iFRANK H JEST". j V't\V?n . WEDS IN ATLANTA [i " Maried to Miss Irene Albert Last Week?They are Mow Visiting at the Home ot the Groom's Parents at Santuc. t The Atlanta Georgian of Sunday i contained the following account of the wedding: j The marriage of Miss Irene Albert t and Frank H. .Jeter took place last r week at the home of the bride's unr cle, J. H. Merritt, on Lee street. An . improvised altar, with palms and > candelabra, made a background for ; the bridal party. Preceding the eeret mony, Miss Hazel Massee sang "At f Dawning," followed by Miss Nina . Hunter, who sang "Oh Promise Me." Mrs. E. T. Booth, at the piano played t the wedding march. Miss Ruth Johnson entered first, i gowned in pink messaline and earryi ing Killarney roses. Following came i M i'ss Elizabeth Hale in pink accor[ dion plaited crepe and earying pink rosebuds. Then came Mrs. George ' Ripley, Jr., ^s matron of honor, wearing her wedding dress of white , crepe de chine and carrying pink roses. Following the matron of honr\?* \i.qo tiffin T> .... ........ ^ T * * v/i "UO nine i'liM Uiuwiiu; lTlcrntt, , carrying a large white rose, in the , heart of which was the wedding ring. The bride entered vith her uncle, Arthur Hale, who gave her away. She wore white crepe de chine with court train and, the veil was confined with a chaplet of orange blossoms. Mr. Jeter and his best man, W. L. Rosenborough, joined them at the altar, where Dean Anderson performed the ceremony. The above will be read with peculiar interest by the people of this county. Mr. Jeter is one of Union county's promising young men, and has many warm friends throughout the county. . _ jints. - arious routes, points of interest ?$ Also descriptive literature sent an your trip. ^ our services are free? Address et Passenger Agent V , S. C. , G.P.A., W. E. McGce, A.G.P.A. & on, D. C. Columbia, S. C. it * % ^lr Any old time a man says that all ? expects of you is that you will sten to reason, he means that ho is sing to get sore if you do not agree ith him. Most of the men who brag that they ;e self-made give you the inipressn that they jrot tired before they lished the job. Lots of men remind you of an old arse that never tries to jret up any iced until it knows that it is on the ay home. The telephone line from New York > San Francisco is overhead tluou^hit its entire extent except for a few lort stretches of cable in cities and rider rivers. Notwithstanding the nprovements which have been made i underground cables, it is still necisary in such long lines as this to tclude as far . as practicable all ngths of cable, however short. Even ith the very best cable and appoints known to the ait, the distance iroutrh which speech may be clearly al distinctly t> ' J?:?:? A NARROW ESCAPE The four year old son of Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Hart was struck Sunday afternoon by the Union and Glenn i Springs train as it passed the cross ing 01 Main street at Monarch. The pilot struck the child, inflicting a wound in the head; it is thought the injuries will not prove serious, although it was a narrow escape. M ITCH ELLr^M ITCH ELL Miss Either Mitchell and Mr. Rodger Mitchell, with a number of young friends, repaired to the home of Rev. L. L. Wagnon on South Church street, this city, Sunday afternoon, June 13, 1915, where they were quietly united in marriage by Rev. t... L. Wagnon. DEATH OF MRST ** " ELVA J. COLEMAN Mrs. Elva J. Coleman died at her home at Crawfords 011 Monday, June 14th, and was buried at Beulah church the following day. She leaves a husband and one daughter, Mrs. Mary C. Rolick. Mrs. Coleman had been in poor health, suffering with cancer, for a long time. She was stricken down 1-- l.-r? 1? auuut mice wet^JS iiriurt' HIT QCQin. She was, before her marriage, Miss Elva Koon, daughter of Jas. II. and Eliza Ann Koon. SUMMER HOURS FOR LIBRARY The summer hours for the Carnegie Free Library will go into effect today, and patrons are requested to take note and govern themselves accordingly. Morning hours are from 1) until 12 o'clock; and the afternoon hours are from 3:30 until 6 o'clock.